Black, White and Red All Over

It's a very black and white kind of day. Today marks the first day of the harshest of seasons. Darkness falls early. Spirits can ride low. Conversely, or maybe because of, this is also Look at the Bright Side Day and National Flashlight Day — surely there is a relationship there. It is also Humbug Day (no kidding).

On this date in 1937 Walt Disney's Snow White, the first feature length color and sound cartoon, premieres. Miss White, as I remember, didn't have much coloring herself, being mostly black and white except for her ruby lips. Speaking of red on this day in 1933 dried human blood serum is first prepared at the University of Pennsylvania, and — back to black and white — today in 1913 the New York World publishes the first crossword puzzle, Arthur Wynne's Word Cross, which contains 32 clues.

This Crossword Puzzle Baseball Jersey is part of the expressive yet wordless output of the CafePress.com Crossword Puzzle shop.

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